Comparison

Evolution Arena vs ClockmakersBench

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Evolution Arena

Strategically place species on a sandbox map to observe their survival and competition. Watch as your created ecosystems evolve and interact in a dynamic environment.

Highlights
  • Species placement
  • Ecosystem survival
  • Competitive interaction
  • Sandbox environment
  • Evolution simulation
Features
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Just tap the screen to place the species, and look how they survive and compete with each other!

About

ClockmakersBench

Features
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Pull up a stool at the Clockmaker's Bench. This is a calm, hands-on idle game about the slow craft of horology — winding escapements, seating gears into half-built pocket watches, and listening to a whole shelf of finished mechanisms tick away. Start with a bare bench. Tap to wind the mainspring; each turn seats another gear into the movement on your workbench. Finish a watch and place it on the ticking shelf, where it runs on its own and earns coin tick after tick — even while the app is closed. As coin flows in, master finer movements. Unlock the moonphase, then the chronograph, the gravity-defying tourbillon, and finally the perpetual calendar — each grade more intricate, more valuable, and more beautiful on the shelf than the last. Patrons come calling, too. Accept a commission and one of your finished watches auto-ships to its owner overnight, paying coin plus patina — a prestige currency you spend on permanent polish that lifts your whole workshop. What you'll do: - Tap to wind and watch gears click into place - Fill a ticking shelf that earns coin passively, even offline - Unlock five complication grades, from time-only to perpetual calendar - Fulfil patron commissions for coin and patina - Upgrade your winding power, automatic winder, shelf, and commission slots - Polish your workshop with patina for a permanent yield bonus Clockmaker's Bench is free to play and supported by occasional ads. You can watch an optional short video for a 30-minute taste of doubled yield, or unlock Master Horologist once to remove ads, double all coin and patina forever, and add two extra commission slots. No subscription — a single purchase, restorable on any device. No timers nagging you, no fail states, no rush. Just the quiet satisfaction of a well-built mechanism and a shelf that keeps on ticking. Pull up a stool and start winding.

Screenshots

Evolution Arena4 screens
ClockmakersBench4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Evolution Arena at 3 against ClockmakersBench's 1. Evolution Arena also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Evolution Arena sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ClockmakersBench sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Evolution Arena ships an update every 9 days, ClockmakersBench every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Evolution Arena versus ClockmakersBench: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvolution ArenaClockmakersBench
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAlexey IzvalovChristian Pedersen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Evolution Arena

One-time1
  • No ads$2.99
1 purchases

ClockmakersBench

One-time1
  • Clockmaker's Bench Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Evolution Arena free?
Evolution Arena is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClockmakersBench free?
ClockmakersBench is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Evolution Arena or ClockmakersBench have ads?
Both Evolution Arena and ClockmakersBench show ads.
Which is updated more often, Evolution Arena or ClockmakersBench?
Evolution Arena ships an update every 9 days, and ClockmakersBench every 5 days. Most recently, Evolution Arena was updated on October 2, 2026 and ClockmakersBench on October 1, 2026.

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